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A nice surprise from a refurb Powermac
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Fresh-Faced Recruit
Join Date: Sep 2002
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So after a bunch of hemming and hawing, I finally ordered a refurb 2x2 Powermac from the Apple store, stepping up from an 800 mhz iMac (which I loved). It was advertised as having 512 meg RAM, Geoforce video card, and a 160 gig drive. Well, the machine arrived Saturday, and I fired it up, and the surprises came. Had a gig of ram, and a Radeon 9600 XT card with 128 megs of ram. And a 250 gig hard drive.
How is this possible? Was this somebody's build to order that they took back? I had assumed I was going to get the stock configuration, but this one is much better than what was listed. No problems firing it up, and I'm watching it closely for trouble. But so far, what a nice machine...
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Mac Enthusiast
Join Date: Apr 2001
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Originally posted by lowend:
So after a bunch of hemming and hawing, I finally ordered a refurb 2x2 Powermac from the Apple store, stepping up from an 800 mhz iMac (which I loved). It was advertised as having 512 meg RAM, Geoforce video card, and a 160 gig drive. Well, the machine arrived Saturday, and I fired it up, and the surprises came. Had a gig of ram, and a Radeon 9600 XT card with 128 megs of ram. And a 250 gig hard drive.
How is this possible? Was this somebody's build to order that they took back? I had assumed I was going to get the stock configuration, but this one is much better than what was listed. No problems firing it up, and I'm watching it closely for trouble. But so far, what a nice machine...
actually that is very common as apple just leaves the stuff in there
when it is returned if it is working fine. Apple could pull the third party
ram but what can they do with it? etc...
anyway... not only did i get what you got (though a 9600 pro card) but
I also got an 8X superdrive when it was supposed to be a 4X superdrive.
It is total luck of the draw as some people return the stuff and have
added nothing to it or pulled the extras before returning it.
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Junior Member
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: RTP, NC
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I didn't do too bad, got a free 9600XT in my refurb Dual 1.8.
My "original" one had a missing memory clip so I had them send me a new unit and it had the "bonus" card, where my "original" had no extra goodies.
Jason
Originally posted by lowend:
So after a bunch of hemming and hawing, I finally ordered a refurb 2x2 Powermac from the Apple store, stepping up from an 800 mhz iMac (which I loved). It was advertised as having 512 meg RAM, Geoforce video card, and a 160 gig drive. Well, the machine arrived Saturday, and I fired it up, and the surprises came. Had a gig of ram, and a Radeon 9600 XT card with 128 megs of ram. And a 250 gig hard drive.
How is this possible? Was this somebody's build to order that they took back? I had assumed I was going to get the stock configuration, but this one is much better than what was listed. No problems firing it up, and I'm watching it closely for trouble. But so far, what a nice machine...
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-Formerly: Mac Plus, PowerMac 8100, Orange Clamshell iBook, G3 B@W, G3 900 iBook, G4 eMac, G5 1.8 Dually, G5 2.0 Dually, G4 iBook, G4 Mac Mini, MBP Rev1 2.0.
-Current: MBP Core 2 Duo
-If I can sneak it in the house: Mac Pro (any will do)
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